On view in SA+P’s Wolk Gallery through Nov. 15, Sidewalk City presents the latest experimental maps developed by the MIT Sidewalk Laboratory (SLAB), a research group developing new methods of mapping in order to re-conceptualize urban space and find more inclusive ways to design and govern the 21st century city.
Directed by SA+P’s Annette Kim, SLAB pursues the practice of mapping as a way to ground our understanding of how space is socially contested, negotiated and constructed; to chart the connections between the built environment, social institutions and human experience; and to propose new narratives and interventions.
The work in this exhibit focuses on the sidewalks of Ho Chi Minh City, perhaps the city’s most important and most overlooked public space – so narrow that they require intimate, local negotiations and yet so vast and networked they hold great potential for bringing people together in a humane and civic society. But despite their role as the major space by which people experience Ho Chi Minh City, the sidewalks disappear in conventional cartography.
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Directed by SA+P’s Annette Kim, SLAB pursues the practice of mapping as a way to ground our understanding of how space is socially contested, negotiated and constructed; to chart the connections between the built environment, social institutions and human experience; and to propose new narratives and interventions.
The work in this exhibit focuses on the sidewalks of Ho Chi Minh City, perhaps the city’s most important and most overlooked public space – so narrow that they require intimate, local negotiations and yet so vast and networked they hold great potential for bringing people together in a humane and civic society. But despite their role as the major space by which people experience Ho Chi Minh City, the sidewalks disappear in conventional cartography.
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